Systemic Quotes
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Opportunity marries with circumstance and is midwife to the resultant bartering of public office. The mutuality is advantage to the parties involved merely facilitates the spread of such practices. When it reaches the point of being commonplace and is pragmatically perceived as the most practical means of getting things done, it has become systemic and difficult to eradicate.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Opening remarks to Transparency International Pacific Regional Meeting, 13 April 2005
The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.
nouriel roubini— "RGE Conference Call on the Economic and Financial Outlook... and why the Treasury TARP bailout is flawed," RGE Monitor (2008-09-26)
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 30 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.
— Ervin László (1996) The systems view of the world: A holistic vision for our time p. 12
"There is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear ... that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."
al sharpton— On the Freddy's Fashion Mart incident, as quoted in National Review (20 March 2000)
